It is called an analysis because you are “analyzing” the meaning of “Ring Around the Rosy.”
The way he tells the story and how it was a different era. His language is kind of backwards let just say.
30 November 1835
Explanation:
Twain was born two weeks after Halley's Comet's closest approach in 1835; he said in 1909: I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.
"The Bat Poet" is written in the first person point of view. Using this POV it allows inside knowledge and understanding into the theme of looking at something from another POV.